Many moons ago (aka my junior year of high school), a classmate mentioned one day in our Spanish III class if the beauty of a campus was the deciding factor in where she’d attended for her undergraduate studies, it would be Southwestern University. Curiosity got me, but knowing it was a private university, my practical side won out and I looked up the tuition costs before viewing the images of the campus. Needless to say, my budget (or lack thereof) won out over beauty, sight unseen.
Zoom forward five years later, on the way back from a work conference in Austin, I detoured at the Georgetown exit to grab lunch. The above story completely forgotten, I took the exit for the university knowing there’d be some sort of fast food option nearby. I passed the major places near the interstate and made my way down to the campus. The story from my classmate was recalled as I drove around the campus, wishing that the university I attended just had SU’s architecture and history. That wasn’t my last trip to Georgetown … as it has become one of my favorite towns in Texas … but with only point and shoot cameras in my ownership on a few future stops, I was determined once I got a DSLR I’d be back to photograph all the details and views.
Last fall, I belatedly made good on that plan. I made a day trip down to Georgetown just before the majority of the holiday decor went out to photograph both the historic downtown area as well as the campus of Southwestern University. While these images have been marked as ‘friends & family’ over on my flickr account for the past ten months, I thought I’d finally get around to sharing some of them here …
At one of the city parks where I went to enjoy my lunch I encountered a flock of geese …
See what I mean about detail! Southwestern University campus …
The zoomed out shot … Southwestern University campus …
Just off the downtown square …
A cafe on the square … I love the colors!
by christina
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